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Hard and Unreal Advice: Mothers, Social Science and the Victorian Poverty Experts

Hard and Unreal Advice: Mothers, Social Science and the Victorian Poverty Experts

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The first detailed and systematic study of the social science of poverty as practiced by the Victorian experts who had so much influence on relief policy in this area, and who were among the founders of British social science. The book examines what they knew, or what they thought they knew, about the poor.

Keywords

POVERTYGREAT BRITAIN_HISTORY_19TH CENTURYPOOR_GREAT BRITAIN

2008Book

Author(s)Kathleen Callanan Martin

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN9780230201897

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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